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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2022
- In this video, I perform both a CPU and RAM upgrade on this Late-2014 Mac Mini. This particular model was originally a base model, with a 1.4 GHz Core i5 CPU and 4GB of RAM. I upgraded the machine to 16GB of RAM, along with a 3 GHz Core i7 CPU, making it a MUCH better machine.
2014 Mac Mini RAM Upgrade MacRumors Thread: forums.macrumors.com/threads/... - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Unbelievable cool video. Thank you for all you've done for the community of old Mac users, your patches have helped me keep so many of my machines useful!
Wow, just wonderful I've never seen anyone do this before, this man is very talented
In 1986 I cut out the 64k of memory from my first Mac and soldered in 128k with guidance from Dr. Dobbs Journal. Thought that was pretty cool but my oh my how times change! Brilliant work, sir, kudos to you!
No Mac shipped with 64k of memory.
@@kirishima638Maybe it was an Apple
@@kirishima638 kilobites of memory
I've watched this in absolute awe. This is a great work of art I'll never be able to perform.
Well done, mate!
Keep it up! I'll just save money for my new Mac Mini M2 by the end of the year.
There's no way I'll find someone as competent as you to do such a thing and still make it affordable.
It's amazing they sold this machine up until the end of 2018. We still have some of them in our labs. and we specced them pretty well at the time, they had the 2.6ghz i5, 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM. They run terribly today on Monterey, and it's officially supported! Yet we have 2012 i5 iMacs with after-market SSDs added and they run like a dream on Monterey using OCLP.
Because it's a low tdp laptop dual core vs a socketed quad core with 65w to 80w wattage.
They may possibly run a little better if you wiped and clean installed all of them with Monterey.
I am writing this from a Mac Mini 2014, 2.6ghz i5, 512GB SSD and 8GB Ram... and I am not agree with your statement "they run terribly today on Monterey". As a matter of fact, it runs smooth. I do Photoshop and Lightroom, Internet, Excel with no problem at all.
@@asphixmx mine too... its only a 4g RAM and even with HDD.. still working very well...
I have the 2012.. it has a quad core I7 and 16gb of ram.. the 2014 was a step back I didn’t know what Apple was thinking.
Amazing project. It's incredible what we can do with older tech nowadays.
You NEVER fail to amaze me with your skills!
Dude, you are amazing...I have been following yours videos since you started making the patches for old mac...
Great job on the hardware upgrades and restoration. I'm sure the switch to an ssd will make overall everyday tasks faster and quieter and cooler operation
dosdude, you are one epic person. That was a lot of work for such minimal gains and something tells me that wasn't why you upgraded.
well, this is definitely an upgrade that no else is going to do
From a tinkerer perspective it's amazing what you did there, complete desoldering/reballing/resoldering plus programming of bios, I draw my hat and fully heartily applaud this work and dedication. From a non mac users perspective... why is there no slot for ram and a socket for cpu?
Yes I now, new ultrabooks are also guilty of soldered on cpu/ram/ssd, but up till 2013/2014 the larger notebooks still had replaceable cpu/ram and ssds. And desktops, we don't have to talk, they are fully upgradeable in most cases.
It forced you to buy the larger capacity models or ram upgrades at purchase at a significantly higher price, as you could never upgrade. I dare say it perhaps also made them more reliable being soldered ,but I’m not sure to what extent - if any. I was waiting for the 2014 to come out so I could upgrade for a much earlier model, and when it did and I saw the soldered ram and cpu, I immediately bought the just superseded quad core whose ram and storage you could upgrade - and having two more cores was a lot faster.
Yeah, good linux knowledge and non Apple hardware makes life easier. But i love my 2012 airbook which rocks Pop OS and honestly, for many years there were no comparable pc notebooks and still today build quality is impressive. So i understand the attraction of Apple devices.... And the M cpus are impressive again. Wait for mature linux support😉
Some of the older Macs had the ability to change ram and hdd but they where finicky with what ram would work it was nice though, I guess its now a bit of both upselling the higher models instead of user upgradeable plus smaller form factors making it harder to replace.
I can say regarding the CPU as to why they moved away from CPU's in both windows Laptops and MacBook's, One is that it results in an overall thinner devices and the other is from DDR3 based devices - the Signal integrity dependent (rise and fall time of high speed digital signals like DDR3 is very small order of few pico seconds - having a socket CPU adds metal socket pins adds more impedance discontinuities which in turn results in delays / corruption /slows down of these rise / fall times. with a soldered BGA CPU you minimize these impedance anomaly- this is wht they eliminated the socket cpu approach ).
@@sheldonkupa9120 what's an airbook?
Unbelievable, jaw-dropping stuff, I'm absolutely blown away. I take my hat off 🎩
Thank you for the video. Fun to watch. I ordered a preheater, flux and 4 ram IC's from Ali expres, gonna give it a go once everything has arrived.
YES! It's a win. Thank you so much
So happy to see you gave the CPU bigger balls.
That was amazing principally the reballing step, congrats!
Reballing that apu is the most difficult part because of the warping you mentioned, on the 10th gen intel had to glue a metal support bracket to the corners to avoid It
I love to see so many fans of this great man. He deserve all the compliments.
Very impressed by dosdude1's skill and precision. This is way above my pay grade. Will say this: I've a 2012 Mac Mini, the last Mini where both RAM and drives were socketed (not soldered) and so upgrades there were plug and play. The CPU of my old Dell Latitude was not soldered either so upgrading that was also simple for this klutz. All of which is to lament that newer tech, with glued cases and soldered everything, requires dosdude1 level expertise to service.
Amazing how it’s done. Very skillful. Quite interesting.
That Geekbench improvement doesn't seem exciting, but doing math it is almost a 50% better performance! That's a lot!! Great work 👏👏
Wow, your video is very good! What you did is a work of art! Very nice!
More great work thanks Collin. Any chance of showing us the board pre-heater that you use please? Thanks EDIT - I found the answer in one of the comments. Cheers. hot air station, Puhui T8280 preheater, Madell QK853 preheater, and Aoyue 4545W nozzle for doing the large BGAs.
That really will be breathing new life into that machine. I think the i7 from that generation was a proper hyperthreaded quad core even in the 13" Macbook Pro, though it may have still been the lower powered variant. Still, it should work wonderfully with the upgraded processor and memory. Always fun to watch people keep these older machines viable with electronic wizardry.
Edit: I was mistaken, the i7 u series from that generation was only a dual-core processor. How disappointing. Still, just getting a substantially faster clock speed will make a world of difference for that mac, as will the upgraded graphics. At least as far as general computing goes. Intel Iris was never a gaming powerhouse, but it's perfectly capable for general UI tasks and video playback.
Love your work mate! Total boss effort!
us Aussies love DosDude hey Trev :)
Mate you are a wizard of computing
Impressive work and excellent explanation.
Looked forward to this one particularly.
Hell Yea! Great Work Sir. New to Apple due to the M1, after finding your tutorials I traded a pile of old PC Boneyard collection for some 2011 & 2012 minis; just to learn how apple did things. Thanks for the help!
Wonderful. You are not an ordinary person, you are special.
I still have one of the 2014 i7 Minis as a daily driver, but unfortunately only 8GB Ram, which starts to become a problem these days. Also, while it has a factory SSD, that one is very slow - slower than a budget sata SSD these days. Upgrading the SSD could help, soldering more ram myself is far out of my league, and getting someone else to do it would be expensive enough to rather save up for a used 16Gig M1 mini. Still, it's awesome to see that it can be done. Great video, dosdude1 !
Im waiting for this, thank genius dude 👏 🥇
Amazing job. Is a dream your job. Congrats from Brazil
Great video for someone like myself. I’m looking at purchasing a 2014 Mac Mini so now I know that, whilst the ball-ache of doing this process myself isn’t terribly difficult (merely mundane), it does require a set of unique tools and isn’t cost-effective unless scaling the operation.
Alternative, spend £20 extra for the 2.6GHz model regardless of RAM and upgrade the whole unit a year later to the 2018 model.
Thanks!!!
Bro I love these kind of content
Very interesting, but too difficult for a nebbie. You are a master technician. It have been super interesting for me to known the technologie for smd circuits reparing. Thanks.
Holy hell! I thought I was cool upgrading my 2012 mini with 16G of RAM and 256 SSD. This is hardcore. Well done! I love my mini! Have Big Sur on it and for daily home stuff it works great. At my work office I have the latest Apple gear. EDIT: Geekbench 704 / 1726 with the i7 / 2.6Ghz / 16G / SSD / 4000 Graphics.
Why haven’t you upgraded it to Monterey yet?
@@abduujabor well you’re not supposed to get Monterey for Mac mini (late 2012) since it’s not “compatible” (which is a stupid lie apple made up) for it.
But the thing is, you actually can get it! It’s just that you have to use open core legacy patcher (which is easy to use) and you need a 16+ USB flash drive to be able to use and get Monterey.
Here is the link to the video of it happening. It’s actually works and it’s legit. Link: th-cam.com/video/McmO7xP4wvI/w-d-xo.html
(Edit) I also recommend having 16 gb of ram (which is easy to change and it’s the most a Mac mini can take) to make the experience faster.
you are my hero, great and patient work...
i think the surface tension of the solder is strong enough to warp the hot chip when you take it off the board with the vacuum pump.try next time to flip it next on a paper towel with tweezers from the sides.i have removed cpus with tweezers aswell with 0.5mm metal blade tool.but overall you are a pro :D .keep up the good work
Amazing job as always !
Amazing as always. Apple probably needs to hire you to do prototype manufacturing/testing and repair.
Wonderful experience! Thank you.
AMAZING WORK, CONGRATS!
Man I think u came from another planet.. 👍👍
Very interesting video! So much for the average joe doing the upgrade as in the older Mini's where memory and cpu were socketed. As a bench tech for commercial communications equipment one would have to invest in some very serious gear just to do these upgrades. Gone are the days of diy repairs and upgrades for the average individual. I do have half of the equipment needed however reballing would not be my cup of tea. Do you do this work as an occupation or hobby?
Again thanks for the informative video!
fantastic video very detailed information - thanks Dosdude :-)
Awesome stuff as always!
Going to need this video now. Knowing nothing about Mac mini's I bought a 2014 Mac mini, base model. Opps, soldered on RAM :) Going to fit this into a G4 "lampshade" iMac. "
Have you considered marking the chip outline on the board before you remove the old cpu to help align the replacement chip?
You are watching a master at work 🫡
oh god! oh my god!!! this video is going so technical OMFG!
Great job was done! Awesome.
Phenomenal work!
legend just to align those memory contacts. and those cpu solder balls!
@dosdude1 amazing work man! I have a 2014 mini and thought I’d be able to follow along lol… yea I hate admitting defeat but think this is beyond my capabilities 😑.. Your work is impressive though!
His skills and tools we be valuable when the SHTF.
I'm on a late 2014 mac mini with 4gb ram and an ssd. I think the ssd makes all the difference for me. This computer as is with the ssd is fantastic. Thanks for the information and the how to. You're super talented.
how u running the ssd? externally booted? make sure you use the usb 3.0 ports not the 2.0 ports, 3.0 is 10x faster.
🎉you really up on spec these machines
Very interesting to see this kind of '"upgrading". Follow-up question: Will 4 x 8GB memory chips work as well? Or is 16GB really the max memory for a 2014 i7 Mac Mini?
You have some amazing skill level.
Wow amazing job dude
Great video sir!
Nice Target Display Mode IMac’s. I use two 24-inch Apple Cinema Display with my 2014 Mac mini i7 at home. And yes I know about OCLP 😊
I’m impressed with your upgrades. I was told by a guy who is a certified apple tech that the memory couldn’t be upgraded. Do you do work for other people. I have a late 2014 mac mini. I’ve never done any soldering. I would be very nervous doing something like that. How much did the parts cost and where did you find them?
I mean, officially, no, it can't be upgraded. This isn't any different from installing modchips or other hardware mods to consoles. It *can* be done, but not officially.
Not something I could do but great work.
Looks nice and professional, except the part with cleaning the CPU over a DVD player
First video of yours I've seen. Absolutely phenomenal job. I pulled the BIOS chip off of my 2014 Mac mini main board, dumped it, modified it, reflashed it, and resoldered it, but this is so beyond any of that. My only question is what is the motivation for this over buying something used (even the exact model you're upgrading to) or some other option? The challenge? Learning? Fun? Because I can't imagine any cost "savings" having to buy a Mac donor board + RAM chips, no less the stencil, etc. and sundry equipment I assume you already had and time required.
@@anshadedavana Absolutely it's not a for-profit endeavor. In a different comment he said "I'll either just keep them around, or give them to friends of mine who want them."
Awesome work.
A complete novice here, so please excuse my ignorance, but I didn't notice you putting any fresh solder on the RAM chips. It looked like you cleaned off all the old solder from the pins on the logic board, added flux to the new RAM chips and then put them on the logic board. Where did the fresh solder come from to solder the new chips onto the board?
Dude you should do custom orders. I'd love to see my Mac mini 2014 upgraded like that!
당신은 천재입니다. 진정한 능력자... 멋집니다.
something therapeutic about soldering bga's
Amazing work :)
Awesome job!
You are godlike!
I wonder if it's possible to make the same trick with Intel Mac Mini 2018, but instead replace cpu to Xeon and add ECC memory?
That's a good use of an old DVD/CD ROM drive.
Collin, what is the progress of you installing 32gb of ram on the 2015 15” mbp? And upgrading the vram to 4gb?
Nice video!
I was wondering if there any place were you share the tools that you use for this memory and cpu upgrades. It looks like a preheater and regular reflow station but I would like to confirm.
Keep it up!
Yeah, just a hot air station, Puhui T8280 preheater, Madell QK853 preheater, and Aoyue 4545W nozzle for doing the large BGAs.
Great video. I just have the same Mac mini.
Off topic, how do you open this Mac mini? I want to disable the internal speaker since my internal speaker now makes a gurgle sound. Now, I just use the external speakers. I cannot disable it by changing through the setting since I already deleted my MacOS. I have replaced it with several Linux OSes.
Have you tried putting the chip into a clamp after removal for cooling? May help with the warping. (would need flat even planes for top and bottom of the chip between the clamp)
Awesome video, Nice work! What do you typically do with the machines once you finish these upgrade-proof-of-concepts?
I'll either just keep them around, or give them to friends of mine who want them.
Hi will you be able to produce a patch for Macs that now will go out of system upgrades like the fabulous Mac book Air 2017 ?
I'm going up to Canada from Portland Next year hopefully to learn Microsoldering and smartphone repair but once I get comfortable soldering I am super excited to be able to do this kind of thing. I literally just bought a Mac Mini from late 2014 for 100 so that I could use opencore to upgrade to Monterry and run BlueBubbles server off of it but I noticed the appalling 4GB of RAM and I'm like that'd be good to upgrade.
Amazing skills, my only question relates to your touching of the CPU soldered contacts and the ball mask - I would have expected to have to keep well away from both to avoid finger oils or sweat contaminating the finish yet it clearly did not. Has this always been your experience ?
Hey can you please write down in your video description which hardware are you using? I would like to know which preheater, which reball station, which soldering iron and which hot air gun are you using. I want to upgrade my equipment and I need some inspiration or tips. :-D
I've asked you a while before in comments in other video but I've never got respond.
You are THE BEAST!!!! very very nice just Bought a used MAC mini 2014 to do this!!
2 Question Please 🙏
Where i can buy the ram chips and how find because i try with Elpida EDFB232A1MA-GD-F i can´t?
where i can buy a new CPU and what are the especifications?
Thanks u are incredible!!!!
This was insane!
Wow great job!
Crazy skills.
You are a fckn genius. I see The Force is strong with you.
Excellent
So cool. I have one of these machines that I just replaced with my first ever BRAND NEW Mac, an M2 Mac mini with 16 gigs. I'd love to bump the ram in my 2014 up to 16, but I haven't touched a soldering iron in years. Do you do this for other people for a fee or know of anyone who does?
what an amazing guy how clever he is i watch his other videos too he cool 😎
Fantastic work!! I want a 2014 mac mini with 2015 mbp internals (broadwell + iris6100 graphics). If you had a spare 2015 MBP, could you somehow manage this?
you are so incredible!
Is it really necessary to swap the me region or would it be easuer to just remove with an me region and reflash the memory? Thanks for the great video.
I would like to see you fit or modify the part or parts required to get apple OS to boot natively on any laptop or desktop pc.
Reverse Engineering!! --- It's an ART and Science that doesn't get enough appreciation. - This guy is a gem!
Fantastic
muahahahah i love this!!! make the impossible .....POSSIBLE!!!! Keep up the great work!!💪💪
what would happen if you sacrifice the donor board and remove cpu by heating cpu trough the macbook pcb? would cpu still bend or perhaps the donor board would bend and cpu remain straight
i know it would work better with ir heaters but in the past i was fixing old motherboards by barbarically heating donors over a gas stove and just picking what i needed
well i also resoldered them without cleaning or rebaling but i was young and supid and 60% of it even worked